Accounting is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #8 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Vermont to determine which ones were the best for accounting students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 90 bachelor's degrees in accounting to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Accounting School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of accounting for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to accounting students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of accounting students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt accounting students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting students working on their bachelor's degree.
The accounting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Accounting Bachelor's Degree Schools in Vermont.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Accounting in Vermont
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting.
Top Vermont Schools for a Bachelor's in Accounting
Champlain College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in accounting. Champlain is a small private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Burlington.
Bachelor's recipients from the accounting program at Champlain College get $4,333 more than the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in accounting has to take a look at Saint Michael's College. Saint Michael's is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Colchester.
Bachelor's recipients from the accounting program at Saint Michael's College get $11,229 more than the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in accounting needs to check out Castleton University. Located in the town of Castleton, Castleton is a public university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the accounting program state that they receive average early career income of $40,895.
Northern Vermont University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in accounting. Northern Vermont University is a small public university located in the rural area of Johnson.
After graduating, accounting bachelor's recipients generally make around $38,402 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).